Twilight woke to a cement floor pressed up against her face. Sitting up she glanced around at the bronze walls and piles of gears and springs all over the floor. From the ceiling hung various hooks, not all of them gleaming bronze, brushing aside a bloody leg suspended from one of the hooks, with a shudder she made her way across the room. Approaching the large ornate door she noticed gears imbedded in the door. Curious she pushed, nothing
"Ok then." She said
Her horn lit up incasing the gears in a faint purple light. The gears turned easily enough, suddenly the door simply dropped through the floor.
"Puzzle one is completed! Congratulations twilight! And welcome, to the funhouse." A familiar voice rang out from a speaker mounted directly above the door.
"Wait! What do you mean puzzle one? And where am I?!" twilight yelled
"Sorry twilight. I'm not allowed to tell you that."
"Turner!"
"I'm sorry twilight. All I can tell you is if you survive you can leave." Time Turner said dejectedly as the speaker cut off.
"Ok, fine let's get moving then."
With that twilight set off down the dark corridor beyond the door. Stepping out into the hall twilight jumped as lights flared all along the walls casting a deep red haze over everything. All along the hall metal panels could be seen glinting in the half-light. Walking forward a few paces she nudged one with her hoof. A bolt of pure energy fired up her foreleg and into her chest hurling her against the far wall.
"Now now, did you really think it would be that easy? No you the smartest must learn to listen. Now here's your puzzle, listen close now. How much do you know about metal? If you know a lot you have the power to create, but that which you create doesn't have to obey. The static warns those who listen to its call, to all others the lot shall fall. You decide." This little rant was delivered by a morbidly deep voice that twisted through the shadows as if it weir alive.
Groaning from the shock twilight climbed to her feet and walked back to the panels.
"Now, what could he have meant, it doesn't have to obey?"